February 2019

Today the city of New Orleans lost a very important piece of historic architecture. The Montgomery- Grace house caught fire early this morning and raged for a good part of the day. After my morning tour, I walked over to the site to find the house still burning, 5 hours or so after the fire department had arrived. The fire was finally put out at 1:45pm. It was a devastating sight. Already, many media outlets are publishing the fascinating history this house through stories of the people who lived here staring with John Morris, who was heavily involved in horse[…]